Critical thinking is not anti-revolutionary and a return to intellectualism is vital for youth empowerment and national progress
‘We are a country where democracy extends beyond the ballot. We live politics. It is our national conversation topic of choice and our soapie’
The 2019 election marks the first time that young people will constitute the highest number of voters in South Africa, giving them plenty of power
A true soldier of the struggle, till the very end
South Africa’s citizenry is not the blank slate the ANC wants it to be — and they need to accept that.
The keynote address struck a chord with university students, who were encouraged to channel their discontent and use it to bring about change.
Fifty percent of South Africans are under 30 and the majority are unemployed.
A great war is brewing to win the vote of the born-frees, but just how they will wield that power in the ballot box is uncertain, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Attacks on President Jacob Zuma are continuing to polarise the Young Communist League.
The ANC Youth League is to use its national general council in August to remind the ANC that it is an autonomous structure.
The aftershocks of the IFP’s dismal showing in the general election are still reverberating through the party.
The ANC Youth League’s spokesperson tells Qudsiya Karrim why she’s up to the task.
Ignoring the axe over her head, Cope’s youth leader builds her ‘brand’.
The <em>Mail & Guardian Online</em> took to the streets in Jo’burg on Friday to find out what some of SA’s youth think of ANCYL leader Julius Malema.
Leaders of three of the most popular political movements talk about how they are planning to get their constituencies to the ballot box.
Researchers say it’s high time that political parties begin to better understand the next generation.
At the M&G and Xstrata’s recent Critical Thinking Forum on youth politics, it was the crowd — as much as the panel — that stole the show.
Put a group of Johannesburg youths on Constitution Hill each Saturday to talk about democracy and the conversation goes large.
Mmanaledi Mataboge speaks to an ANC youth league member who has no regrets about his statement that Cope members should be killed.
Julius Malema’s rhetoric is mere flatulence unleashed across the land.
